James Nicoll Quotes
It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.James Nicoll
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy Friday -
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
Edie Brickell -
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes -
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
Rachel Roy -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
Kara Walker -
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim -
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Pat Summitt -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
Natalie Dormer -
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
Yochai Benkler
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The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.
Sidney Royel Selby III -
The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.
Matthew Heineman -
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Barack Obama -
I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
Rakul Preet Singh -
All I want is to have my peace of mind...
Brad Delp Boston -
It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
James Nicoll